James Morris Essay Prize for Colonial and Post-Colonial Architecture

The James Morris Essay Prize is named after James Morris (1878-1964), a British-born and -educated architect who worked in South Africa from 1902, including a period spent in the office of Sir Herbert Baker. It was generously endowed by his grandson, Dr Simon Morris.

"It will be awarded to the best essay submitted on British colonial or post-colonial architectural history.

"Essays may be on the British Empire generally, or on any area or areas which were British colonies at the time being written about, or had previously been British colonies. ‘Colonies’ includes protectorates, dominions, mandates, and land ruled by chartered companies, but not any part of the United Kingdom or any non-British possessions of a British monarch; it specifically does not include Ireland or the United States."

Essays can therefore be on the architecture of a place when it was a British colony or after it ceased to be a British colony, but not before it became a British colony.